Re: Two new bugs on SF...

[Eric Sorenson]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Christian Pearce wrote:

> Copying a missing file:
> 
> * Gives me a Host authentication error.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1246276&group_id=126712&atid=706640

Mark has said before that this behavior is intentional, to avoid 
giving specific error information to an attacker.

> 
> * elsedefine does not become defined:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1246301&group_id=126712&atid=706640

Yes there's definitely an assumption that the file you're trying to 
copy will exist at the source location, which does not hold true once 
you start using singlecopy. The "can't stat/auth failed" log message 
spamminess on both client and server and this problem are follow-ons
from that assumption.

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